The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Gabriel García Márquez with Randolph Hogan (Translator)

106 pages first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction classics adventurous reflective fast-paced
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In 1955, García Márquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barel...

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Moods

adventurous 88%
tense 45%
reflective 36%
emotional 33%
inspiring 28%
challenging 23%
hopeful 23%
informative 23%
dark 16%
sad 9%
mysterious 2%
relaxing 2%

Pace

fast 48%
medium 38%
slow 12%

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